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• ‟ I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

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• ‟ But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

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• ‟ Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.

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• ‟ Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

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• ‟ Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

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• ‟ There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

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• ‟ Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.

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• ‟ When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.

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• ‟ But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

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• ‟ Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

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• ‟ We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

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• ‟ But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

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• ‟ Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

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• ‟ In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.

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• ‟ You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

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